 | James Pendleton Lichtenberger - 1923 - 504 pages
...problem of social evolution. Darwin saw it and stated it in a paragraph in The Origin of Species. "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement... | |
 | 1925 - 566 pages
...case. In the first edition of The Origin of Species (p. 488) he makes this interesting statement: " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." The last sentence is important as evidence that in 1859 Darwin had clearly in mind the application... | |
 | Charles Robert Gibson - 1926 - 392 pages
...sentence on the last page but one of this great book ; when referring to future researches he says, " Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." Although there was no attempt at sensationalism in Darwin's book, it could not be expected that people... | |
 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane - 1928 - 338 pages
...clear reasoning will carry me further ' ; and whereas Darwin in the Origin was content to say, ' Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history,' and did not publish the Descent of Man until 1871, Huxley at once saw the implications of Darwinism... | |
 | Richard Dawkins - 2004 - 277 pages
...Darwin's Descent of Man Humanity is the missing guest at the feast of The Origin of Species. The famous 'Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history' is a calculated understatement matched, in the annals of science, only by Watson and Crick's 'It has... | |
 | Marjorie Grene, David J. Depew - 2004 - 446 pages
..."incomprehensible to us," in which the changes he has been describing must have taken place, he continues: In the distant future I see open fields for far more...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Darwin 1859, p. 488 For Darwin, that light was already clear enough, although he would not offer it... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 304 pages
...Close to the end of the Origin, surveying the prospects for the theory he has propounded, he declared, "In the distant future, I see open fields for far...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (2003, p. 397). The future was not so distant as Darwin fancied, at least not in the short run. Darwin... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 308 pages
...Origin, surveying the prospects for the theory he has propounded, he declared, "1n the distant future, 1 see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (2003, p. 397). The future was not so distant as Darwin fancied, at least not in the short run. Darwin... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2004 - 354 pages
...implications of his theory for understanding in an entirely new way the workings of the human mind: "In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation" (Darwin 1859, p. 488). According to some critics of evolutionary psychology, Darwin's prediction has... | |
 | J. David Lewis-Williams, David G. Pearce - 2004 - 302 pages
...pis 14, 15. Roots in the Brain: A Neurological Interlude In the distant future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based...necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity 1n/ gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and Ins histon/. —Charles Darwin, 18591... | |
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In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his... 
